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Distressing trends in modern pop music
Kugai:
It's not all that far away doombilly.
Kwaping:
On a slightly-related note, if you haven't yet seen it, watch the movie Idiocracy immediately.
Lupercal:
I want to argue nothing's original. But nothing's really ever been original. Clapton made a living from singing songs originally done by black guys in the 30s and 40s, but nobody heard of them. Same goes for the Stones. 70s 'neo-blues' was a hip new kind of thing.
So I feel like people like Bruno Mars are just taking the popularity of Sting/The Police, the pertaining love for Bob Marley, and just infusing it with a slab of mediocrity so that it sounds like a rip-off rather than something original. I also kind of dislike the lack of bands that I know of that seem to do songs that aren't later going to be turned into 3-minute radio jizz or an 'anthemic' stadium song that has a chorus 20,000 people can remember (essentially - do bands bother with 'deep cuts' anymore, or is it just filler? Does a song become a deep cut after [x] amount of people have decided it's a great non-single track?)
I'd like to also put my foot in to say, fuck off pop-folk crap. Please, folk is a fairly neat genre that I haven't really explored but the stuff I've heard I've liked. Mumford doesn't do anything for me...
Hey, I'm a grumpy old man at the age of 22! I think what this really means is I must EXPAND MY MUSICAL HORIZONS and get into some bands that are decent and that tour the UK.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 18 May 2013, 16:37 ---I want to argue nothing's original.
--- End quote ---
There's a little individuality in anything I think is worth hearing. It's the combination of influences that makes it all special.
mtmerrick:
Very few things ever created are truly original. Pretty much everything is inspired by, a derivative of, an evolution of, based upon, or springboarded off of something else. This goes for all things, and music is no exception.
Now shamelessly ripping someone off is a completely different story, but you can't expect everyone to be 100% original in everything they do.
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